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beamjockey) wrote2011-07-21 05:14 am
beamjockey) wrote2011-07-21 05:14 am
ATLANTIS Is Home Safe
Couldn't sleep. Turned on TV. Watched the final Shuttle land, safe and sound.
I watched the first one launch, also on TV, thirty years ago. I remember there were doughnuts.
Atlantis sits on the runway. On the infrared camera, I can see its auxiliary power unit puffing away like a locomotive. This was truly a magnificent technological system, and for all its shortcomings, I am sorry to see it go. I applaud everyone who made it fly.
In seventy-one days, we shut down the Tevatron, too.
I watched the first one launch, also on TV, thirty years ago. I remember there were doughnuts.
Atlantis sits on the runway. On the infrared camera, I can see its auxiliary power unit puffing away like a locomotive. This was truly a magnificent technological system, and for all its shortcomings, I am sorry to see it go. I applaud everyone who made it fly.
In seventy-one days, we shut down the Tevatron, too.